South Carolina, Georgia, and California can say the same thing. Should they be excluded as well?
No, they are not the same thing. *phone hangs up*
It’s always a cost/benefit analysis. Which grade oil, how much will it cost to get it, refine it, to sell it where for how much. There’s a time the nation might need whatever the east coast could bring, but it’s not now. If we’re talking nat gas, however, that’s a different kettle of fish.